How matching works
First AI-powered senior living matching based on care needs, lifestyle preferences, and budget
Most directories hand you a long list and leave the sorting to you. Senior Places does the sorting. You tell us about the person you are helping, and every community near you is scored on the three things that decide whether a place will actually work: care needs, lifestyle preferences, and budget. Then a Match Report explains each one in plain words, so you walk into a tour already knowing what to ask.
Senior Places matches families with senior living communities by scoring every community against the family’s own answers on care needs, lifestyle preferences, and budget. A short quiz that takes a few minutes produces a Match Score for each community nearby and an AI-written Match Report explaining why it fits and where it falls short. Communities cannot pay for a better ranking or placement, and it is free for families.
Tell us who you are looking for
The Smart Match Quiz asks about the person, not the paperwork: what kind of help they need day to day, how they like to spend their time, and what the family can comfortably spend. It adapts as you go, skipping what does not apply, and takes a few minutes.
Care needs
Daily help, health conditions, mobility, memory support.
Lifestyle preferences
Activities, dining, pets, faith, culture, the feel of the place.
Budget
What fits, how you plan to pay, and whether a waiver applies.
Every community near you gets a Match Score
Instead of a list sorted by who is closest or who advertises most, you see every community scored on how well it fits your answers. The ring shows the overall fit at a glance, and its three arcs show care, lifestyle and budget separately, so you can see where a place is strong and where it is not.
Excellent Match
Fits on all three. Tour it.
Strong Match
Fits well, with one thing to check.
Good Match
Worth a look if the gap is something you can live with.
A Strong Match means the same thing in every city, for every family. A community’s score does not change because of who else is nearby, and no community can pay to move up.
Read why, in plain words
Every match comes with a Match Report. The AI writes it from your answers and the community’s own information: a bottom line, what lines up, what does not, and the questions worth asking on a tour. It tells you the gaps as plainly as the wins, because a surprise after move-in is the one outcome everyone is trying to avoid.
Maplewood Senior Living
Palo Alto, CA · Assisted Living
Match Report · Excellent Match
A standout on care and daily life. Memory support and social activities line up with what you told us. Worth confirming the monthly cost fits before you tour.
- Memory care on-site
- Daily social activities
- Restaurant-style dining
- ?Within your budget
Illustrative report, not a real community.
A person, whenever you want one
Matching narrows the field. People close it. After you sign up, someone from our team may reach out to help: answer questions, set up tours, put together a checklist for the visit, and stay with you through move-in. Help, never pressure, and always free.
What this means for your family
Free for families
The quiz, your matches, every Match Report and help from our team cost you nothing.
Communities can’t pay for placement
Your results are ordered by fit with your answers. No community can buy a better spot.
Gaps shown, not hidden
If a community misses something you need, the report says so before you spend an afternoon touring it.
State inspection records, where available
For California communities, license status and inspection history sit right on the profile.
Questions families ask
- Can a community pay to appear higher in my matches?
- No. Your matches are ordered by how well each community fits what you told us about care needs, lifestyle preferences, and budget. Communities cannot buy a better ranking or placement.
- Does the AI pick my matches?
- No. Your Match Scores come from your own answers matched against each community’s information. The AI writes the Match Report that explains each match in plain words; it does not choose or change your scores.
- Is there a cost?
- No. The quiz, your matches, every Match Report and help from our team are free for families.
See your own matches
A few minutes of questions. Every community scored on care needs, lifestyle preferences, and budget. Free for families.
Take the Smart Match Quiz